Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart was still beating, a little fast, a little weak. His blood pressure had been dangerously high before the tracheotomy. It stabilized near normal after the throat tube relieved pressure caused by blood and mucus in the trachea. "The heart started to stabilize too, so we could operate," Cuneo later told TIME Correspondent Tim Tyler. Ethel Kennedy had been there all the while, standing in a different section of the room. "I told her we were taking X rays, that her husband was extremely critical...
...whose father is dean of instruction at The American College of Switzerland, is not the customary introverted boy genius. He enjoys skiing and bridge, makes friends easily, dates a 20-year-old coed. Like most students, he prefers eleventh-hour cramming to term-long study. But he is bright, fast, hates to go to bed before five in the morning, and is in a very big hurry to succeed academically...
...those who were listening, listening to the war get worse and to the repression of demonstrations get more brutal, the time for the choice was zooming in very fast. Sitting on the sidelines, being cool-liberal and dispassionate was becoming irrelevant. The theme that the Washington demonstrators harped on was: if you're not with us, you're against...
...lights have exhibited an extraordinary ability to start fast, and to break (beat, to the laymen) the other shells immediately after the race begins. What concerns Andersen is their tendency to lose speed as the race wears on. Andersen has clocked his crew over each segment of a race, and the times increased. He calls this drop-off in speed "a bit excessive...
...gifted athlete, big (6-3, 215) and fast (he has lettered as a sprinter on the track team) Carter Lord teamed with Ric Zimmerman to revolutionize Harvard football. Lord broke all the school's pass catching records (he grabbed nine in his career finale against Yale) and was instrumental in Harvard's Ivy League co-championship in 1966. Also the captain of the baseball team, Lord attracted major league scouts with his wide range as a center fielder and his powerful swing. Although he did not hit as well this spring as in the past, his coaches give him much...